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Four American platforms, Huawei and an operator-hosted Chinese platform will all be in-country within about a year, with sovereign-positioned alternatives pitching alongside them. Supply is being built ahead of the demand it assumes.
Air-gapped deployment options, in-country cloud classifications, zero-trust governance and sovereign inference all arrived as named product features — because Saudi buyers now ask for them on the purchase order.
At a show full of future capacity announcements, Oracle showcased stc, Ma'aden and Zain running on infrastructure that is already in the ground.
Open-source AI development platform Dify is exhibiting at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, using the show to introduce Gulf buyers to Dify Enterprise, its version built for air-gapped and on-premise deployment in regulated environments.